Crib attachment for beds.



Patented Apr. 23, I90].

J. E. HAWKINS. ems Mucus Fun BEDS.

Application filed 0:6. 22, 1900.

(No Model.)

:NITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

JAMES E. HAWKINS, OF SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, ASSIGNOR OF -ONE-HALF TO ELLWOOD L. MOON, OF SAME PLACE.

CRIB ATTACHMENT FOR BEDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 672,766, dated April 23, 1901.

Application filed October 22, 1900. berial No. 33,956- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES E. HAWKINS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Shawnee, in the county of Pottawatomie and Territory of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Crib Attachment for Beds, of which the following is a specification.

r This invention relates to crib attachments for beds; and the object of the same is to provide a simple, cheap, and eflective device of the character set forth and connect it to the bed in such manner that it will not mar the portion adjacent the attachment and capable of being folded and storedout of sight under the bed or of being readily drawn out and arranged in operative position.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of the several parts, which will be more fully hereinafter described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bedstead, showing the improved device applied thereto in operative position. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the bedstead, showing the attachment in folded condition thereunder. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section of the bedstead and attachment as shown arranged by Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail sectional elevation of a portion of the attachmen't.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate corresponding parts in the several views.

The numeral 1 designates a bedstead having the usual side rails 2 and 3. To the inner side of the rail 2, near opposite extremities and below the bed-frame ledge 4 thereof, the

. ends of transversely-extending supportingrods 5 are firmly secured and the greater portions thereof depressed below the plane of the under edges of both rails, so that the said rods can be projected beyond the outer side of the rail 3. The extremities of the said rods adjacent the rail 3 are formed with upwardlyextending members 6, located at a suitable distance from the outer surface of the said rail, and at the upper terminations of said members bent drop-seats 7 are formed, which continue into inwardly-extending rail-engaging portions 8, fitted over the upper edge and se cured to the inner side of the rail 3. At the points where the rod extremities, including the members 6, seats 7, and portions 8, are located adjacent to the rail 3 and also engage the latter the said rail is supplied with a protecting or buffing covering 9, of suitable material, to prevent marring or scratching the same, and the only portion of the improved attachment that projects beyond the bed-rail are the seat extremities of the rods, as set forth.

The crib device comprises a frame 10, having opposite ends and an outer side suitably connected and constructed of angle-iron or other material, with the horizontal flange on the inside to provide means for supportinga bed-frame of anydesired nature,and,as shown by Fig. 2, said bed-frame may be of that kind made up of spring-wire, the said bed-frame being left out of the remaining figures in order to avoid confusion in the showing. Near the ends of the outer side of the frame 10 legs 11 are hinged so that they maybe folded upwardly against said side, and the inner terminals of the ends of said frame have outwardly-extending right-angular hook members 12 for removable engagement with the seats 7 when the attachment is in opera tive position, as shown by Fig. l, or with the supporting-rods 5 beneath the plane of the lower edges of the rails when the attachment is in stored condition under the bedstead, as shown by Fig. 2. The seats 7 are at such an. elevation above the supporting-surface of the bedstead that when the attachment is in operative position, with the legs 11 also rested on the same surface, the frame will be in a true horizontal plane. About midway of the length of the outer side of the frame an opening 13 is fdrmed for removable engagement by a hook 14 on the free end of a chain or analogous device 15, secured to the inner side of the rail 3, the chain holding the outer side, which is next to the rail 3 when the attachment is folded and pushed under the bedstead, in horizontal position. The angular hook members 12 are moved vertically between the members 6 of the rods 5-and the outer adjacent side portions of the rail 3 in the operations of arranging the attachment in operative position and in storing the same, and the seats 7 are deep enough to prevent accidental disengagement of the members 12 therefrom.

As it is preferred to use some means for preventing the occupant of the attachment from rolling out over the outer side thereof, a freely-movable guard 16 is provided and comprises a pair of uprights 17, to which slats 18 are secured, the lower extremities of the uprights being loosely and adj ustably mounted in openings 19 in the horizontal flange 20 i of the outer side of the frame 10. The said lower extremities of the uprights are first bent to form obtuse angular rests 21 to bear on the upper surface of the flange 20 and are also provided with terminals 22'at an obtuse operative position the legs are free to be lowered.

Theimproved device is light and cheap in itsstructure and 'will form an advantageous. auxiliary to an ordinary bedstead for young. children who require closeattention andcare and nearness to the mother or nurse, and

though the preferred form has been shown and described, it will be obviouslyapparentthat changes in the form, proportions,-size, and minor details of construction maybe-1e sorted to without departing from the principle of the invention.

secured to theupper edge'of the adjacent rail, and-a foldable crib attachment having transversely-extending members atopposite extremities to terminally move on said rods and engage the said seats.

2. The combination with abedstead, ofsupporting-rods extendingtransversely under and below the plane of the lower edges of the side rails thereof and attached to the latter, portions of said rods projecting beneath and beyond one rail and having angular vertical v members parallel with the outer side of the 1 seats, and means forassisting in holding the attachment in horizontal position when the same is in stored position under the rails of the bedstead.

3. The combination with a bedstead, of a foldable crib attachment comprising a frame with openings in one portion thereof, hinged legs forsupporting said frame, and a guard consisting of uprights and slats, the uprights having reduced terminals movablyand adjustably mounted in the openings of the frame-and having an angular formation for the purpose setforth.

4. A crib attachment for a bed comprising a frame having hinged legs, and a guard foldable' thereon and havinguprights with angular terminals freely movable in a portion of said 'frame, said terminals engaging said legs when both parts are folded'and forming holding-means for the said legs.

5. The combination with a bedstead, of supporting devices extending thereunder and beneath and beyond one of the rails, the portions of the saiddevices projectingbeyond one :of the rails being provided with seats, and a ,crib attachment comprising a frame having members to .slidably engage the said devices and the seats, foldable means for supporting the-outer portion of the frame, and a fold able guard having extremities to engage the foldable means for the support of theouter portion of the frame.

In testimony that I'claim the foregoing as Emy own I'have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' 7 JAMES E. HAWKINS.

Witnesses:

G. HUcKINs, G. S. BURNETT. 

